In town pool report #5 - fuller quotes

Fleshing out some quotes from Pool Report #3, the president’s opening remarks in the Oval Office:

“We just made a great settlement of the war in Iran and we'll be subject to finalization of documents. We should get done over the next few days. Probably have a signing maybe in Europe and great thing. Stock markets up a thousand points. That means they like the deal. That means if the market goes down, that means they don't like it. Oil’s dropped. Oil will start coming down to I think even lower than it was before……and when oil comes down, everything else comes down…”

He said the deal “Should be done and should be done pretty quickly. They wanted every bit as much as everybody else wants.” He credited “a lot of good relationships “ for the deal, saying he spoke “with the leaders of many of the countries that were mentioned in the release. I spoke to Bibi, I spoke to them. Great heads of nations there, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and others. And we'll be talking to Turkey. President Erdogan.”

He added, “…A lot of spirit. Pakistan was fantastic.” He said, “We've been taking out many ships that nobody knew. Over the last month we've been taking out ships, big ships quietly at night…. Pretty cool, right?... Turned off the lights. We bombed their radar and everything so they couldn't see what was going on. We took out some nights, 25 ships, some nights 15, last four or five. Nights we did 25, 22, 21, 26, 18 and 14. Who else would remember those numbers?”

Continuing, he said, “We took them out at night and the Strait will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be sent very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe. I won't be able to be there, but JD will be there vice president and some of the people. Steve Witkoff did a great job, Jared.”

When talking about fishing, he mentioned fishing off the coast of Maine, which led him to comment on the Democratic nominee for Senate there. “Maine is very much in the subject because I have a pig running for the Senate. He's a pig. He's not a Senator. It's a joke. He's a conman. I won half of Maine. I won the one by a lot.”